Your technique of bombasting the opposition with lots of information that has no merit, followed by lots of deflection and posturing, may also work - as long as nobody else in the courtroom knows more than you.Unfortunately, this does actually happen.  

Swanny must spend some time staying on top of the manager, or his properties could crash before his next visit.The beauty of the real estate business is that you can mix and match techniques to come up with a business that works for you.  

Less is more with this kind of tenant so limit communication, use the broken record technique when you talk to her (repeat yourself) and acknowledge what she says.  

Kept it for several years until I got into rehabbing salt damp damaged bungalows with a few other guys, so I reluctantly sold it for about double.In 2012 my wife & I visited the city & most of the front yard had been expropriated to enlarge the road but the place was immaculate.  

I've been at this for a while and I can sell most of my properties using simple techniques that don't include real estate agents.

With all the different marketing techniques available to us today.

@Shawn Westbrook my personal must-haves: skirt board ladder, left-handed hammer, glass hammer, lightning hammer (never strikes the same place twice), wood enlarger, nailing lubricant, and a rip saw with a pull chord.

Many of these techniques listed have a fair amount of industry specific knowledge that you would want to familiarize yourself with prior to jumping in. 

You cant give the tenant that much power over youBest technique is to be firm but professional and dangle the deposit in front of them if they just get out now and with no major damage.

I could stay nice and smile and just use the broken record technique, "No, sorry, hon, I don't accept people who don't make 3X the rent.